A man from Orange and a Bridge City woman are in the Tyler County Jail with bond set at $250,000 each for murder charges. The two were arrested in connection with the death of a 51-year-old man whose body was discovered inside his house, which had been destroyed by fire Sunday.
47-year-old Angela Coats and 37-year-old Bruce Lee Chance are facing first degree felony charges. Chance was arrested on Wednesday and Coats was arrested Thursday.
Firefighters were called to a burning house at 5 p.m. Sunday near Dam B in the Wayward Wind subdivision in Tyler County. The house was engulfed in flames when they arrived. The man’s body was found after the flames were out.
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